the russian foreign minister lavrov essentially saying they expect to continue intense discussions, that they have some creative ideas to take back to their respective capitals. and also saying that russia's violation of ukraine's sovereignty has united the world in support of the ukrainian people. and in that question-and-answer session segment there, it seemed like he was really pushing back on the idea that they hadn't made any real progress in these discussions. there had been some question or expectation that maybe russian foreign minister lavrov would meet with the ukrainian foreign minister. that didn't happen. >> that's right. we were reporting that at the beginning of the hour because there were those movements to see if those meetings might occur. there were basically three questions i counted here from -- from secretary of state kerry speaking, one from the "washington post," one -- all of the questions obviously saying basically show us the beef. what did you achieve -- >> what did you actually accomplish. >> what is happening. the secretary of state say somethings that -- something